[
  I'm posting a v3 taking care of feedback from Peter Zijlstra and Paul
  E. McKenney in case it can be useful to try hazard pointers with other
  use-cases, or for further benchmarking of active mm tracking impact.
]

Hazard pointers appear to be a good fit for replacing refcount based lazy
active mm tracking.

Highlight:

will-it-scale context_switch1_threads

nr threads (-t)     speedup
     1                -0.2%
     2                +0.4%
     3                +0.2%
     6                +0.6%
    12                +0.8%
    24                +3%
    48               +12%
    96               +21%
   192               +28%
   384                +4%
   768                -0.6%

This series applies on top of v6.11.1.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <[email protected]>
Cc: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zqiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonas Oberhauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]

Mathieu Desnoyers (4):
  compiler.h: Introduce ptr_eq() to preserve address dependency
  Documentation: RCU: Refer to ptr_eq()
  hazptr: Implement Hazard Pointers
  sched+mm: Use hazard pointers to track lazy active mm existence

 Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst |  38 +++++-
 Documentation/mm/active_mm.rst        |   9 +-
 arch/Kconfig                          |  32 -----
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                  |   1 -
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c  |  23 +---
 include/linux/compiler.h              |  63 ++++++++++
 include/linux/hazptr.h                | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/mm_types.h              |   3 -
 include/linux/sched/mm.h              |  68 ++++-------
 kernel/Makefile                       |   2 +-
 kernel/exit.c                         |   4 +-
 kernel/fork.c                         |  47 ++------
 kernel/hazptr.c                       |  51 ++++++++
 kernel/sched/sched.h                  |   8 +-
 lib/Kconfig.debug                     |  10 --
 15 files changed, 358 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/hazptr.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/hazptr.c

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2.39.2

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